Constituency
106. Canning East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1991
WB-CANNING-EAST
CPM 71.8%won by 50.1%INC 21.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.4% to 50.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.5% between them, down from 99.5% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
98,828
Margin
49,518
50.11%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1987
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +24.7%
- CPM share
- 62.4% → 71.8%
- INC share
- 37.0% → 21.7%
- Turnout
- — → —